dletter:Clemkadidlefark: That and Edison sought to kill all his competitors

So, basically Edison was a wannabe meth kingpin?

Well, he was a crime lord. Certainly. He played rough, and he had the money to pay people to do nasty things to his competitors.

Really, if history shows us anything, it's that the principle of "nice guys finish last" is true. Edison was mean. He was an asshole. I don't think he had a nice bone in his body. And he was remembered as the greatest inventor and father of electricity. He was wealthy. He has all those patents that will always be in his name. He has the credit.

Meanwhile, Tesla was a modest, nice guy by all accounts. He was quiet and dedicated. He was not a backstabbing, vicious man like Edison, and as a result Edison pushed him out of the picture, took credit for many of his discoveries, and fought tooth and nail to discredit him-- Successfully, I might add-- for many, many years.

It's only recently that people are saying any of this. In their lifetimes, Tesla was the loser, and Edison was one of the most respected, wealthy men in the world.

Only bastards get to the top, and they do that by stepping on the good guys. Edison is proof.

sleeper2995:Even though I know Telsa is god. Edison still gets major props for the fact he electrocuted all kinds of stuff just to see what would happen.

Not quite. It wasn't for some sort of scientific curiousity. He knew what would happen, he was making public demonstrations of it because he was trying to besmirch a competitor's products.

Kind of like if Ronald McDonald was showing up at state fairs to kill stolen house pets with poisoned Burger King cheeseburgers. And an elephant. It proved nothing, served no research purpose, it was simply a deceitful kind of early viral marketing campaign. I think he even pretended to be shilling for the competitors product sometimes when making his demonstrations, if memory serves.